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Current Date and Time (Tools/APIs)

Obtain the current date and time.

Background Information

ObjectScript provides a special variable ($HOROLOG) that you can use to obtain the current date and time; see Date and Time Values. Note that $HOROLOG is available within SQL queries (as are other special variables).

Available Tools

In addition, InterSystems provides the following tools:

Includes the following class methods that return current date/time values:

  • Horolog()

  • TimeStamp()

Availability: All namespaces.

Includes the following class methods that return current date/time values:

  • Date()

  • DateTime()

  • Time()

Availability: All namespaces.

Includes the following class methods that return current date/time values:

  • NowLocal()

  • NowUTC()

Availability: All namespaces.

Note

The special variable $SYSTEM is bound to the %SYSTEM package. This means that instead of ##class(%SYSTEM.class).method(), you can use $SYSTEM.class.method().

See Also

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